Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I have a #devops (or what we used to call #sysadmin) question...

I like Docker Swarm for its simplicity and apparent "lightweight" nature. From a user standpoint, you can simply define a set of services and it's not that much of a leap to go from a docker-compose file to a full blown distributed system for a small number f nodes.

The problems are that Docker Swarm only appears to be offered by Docker (tm) and requires the real Docker (tm) stack, as opposed to the solution most distros use today, which is to use podman as a Docker replacement (for many good reasons).

And the fact that Docker is owned by Mirantis, Mirantis's future seems uncertain is good reason not to stay.

Is anyone still using Docker Swarm? If not, do you have a lightweight alternative (not Kubernetes)? I've heard not-great things about Nomad.

I feel like this is a huge missing area in the orchestration landscape.

#docker #orchestration #dockerswarm #kubernetes #nomad

Pretty much every bill at the state and national level that claims to be about "protecting children" is about increasing surveillance on everyone, taking away people's healthcare, eliminating queer people, sex workers, and anything vaguely deemed "adult content" from the Internet, and in general, giving GOP prosecutors carte blanche to track and persecute whomever they want.

Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]
Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK]
Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]

If you see any names you recognize as someone maybe you voted for or otherwise represents you, I recommend you ring them up and give them hell. Very, very diplomatically and politely, of course, but firmly and unambiguously. Be sure to let them know that you are constituent of theirs - that's an important word, "constituent" - and you cannot fathom why they would fall for such an obviously treacherous attempt to trick them into government overreach and tyranny.

Hey, Americans, check this list and if any of these legislators are yours, well you need to come get them.

This is the bipartisan list of co-sponsors of the nightmarish anti -1A Big Brother KOSA bill, that the GOP has already announced they intend to use to suppress information about LGBTQ+ topics.

Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]

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Just cut another release candidate for #Abra for the #CoopCloud hackers amongst us! v8.x series is now officially on the loose 🏃‍♀️ The installer is kinda borked atm so you'll need to grab the binary directly from the releases page! As per usual, thanks for testing and let us know if you run into bugs 😍 https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/abra/releases/tag/0.8.0-rc1-beta

Multiple bright, young scientists I know have told me they will not be applying to jobs in TX & FL.

Faculty friends at institutions in these states have shared they are having trouble recruiting new students & concerned about what they could be accused of.

Having spent years working at UT Austin where I loved our weird & welcoming community, I’m deeply troubled watching things fall apart. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

I saw this on Twitter and decided to copy it off.

• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.

• Black Panther is about colonization. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.

• Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.

• The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.

Gulf stream could collapse as early as 2025.

At which point we’re fucked.

We’ve known it was coming for 50+ yrs and did fuck all to prevent it.

#ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Well, this is a breath of fresh air! https://taxjustice.net/reports/the-state-of-tax-justice-2023/ a positive recommendation on what to do with the global tax process for multinational corporations - shift responsibility to the UN so that the standard multinational corporate practice of playing one tax haven off another & screwing everybody else gets stopped in its tracks. Seems very sensible.

Sucks to be this dipshit: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/anti-abortion-leader-child-sex-abuse-1234794177/

Guess what Greta did after being sentenced today for blockading the "Oil Port" of Malmö in June?

Yep, that's right. Went to blockade the same "Oil Port" of Malmö this afternoon, just a couple of hours later, alongside ~15 other habitat heroes.

When Public Service TV asked why Greta was there again so soon after being sentenced, Greta replied that,
"The climate emergency doesn't care about that, I am not deterred by it".

I endorse these "crimes".

One thing Musk knows about Big Journalism is that it chases shiny objects above all else. This is why rebranding Twitter has held front pages and newscast prominence for days.

He hates journalists, but wow does he know how to use them.

(h/t a friend)

2023 Jul 24:
"Why Are OBGYNs Being Forced to Go to Texas?" by Jessica Valenti
https://jessica.substack.com/p/why-are-obgyns-being-forced-to-go?r=1mqsc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

> OBGYNs [...] got an email last month from the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG) telling them they’d have to take their certifying exams in Texas this year.
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> While he’s in New York, [OBGYN] Ottolenghi has shield laws to protect him from any out-of-state prosecutions. “I’m terrified that the second I step foot in Texas I could be arrested,” he says.
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> ABOG, headquartered in Dallas, is telling candidates that they “should not be at legal risk” because Texas’ criminal and civil penalties only apply to abortions performed in the state. But the group hasn’t addressed the danger for doctors in pro-choice states who ship abortion medication to Texas patients via telehealth—potentially a tremendous criminal risk.
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The Kolektiva raid reminds us that it’s important to stand with your users in the #fediverse too.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their

Again, doing the best I can with just 4 poll options...

Poll 4: How do you feel toward the Anti-Meta Pact, and what best describes your gender history?

#Facebook #federation #defederation

(boosts welcome)

For anyone who hasn't read about it yet, the Anti-Meta Pact is an agreement authored by Vanta Black on the beach.city instance, which many instances have been signing, promising *not* to federate with any Fediverse instances hosted by Meta / Facebook. (see https://fedipact.online/)

Doing the best I can with the 4 options I'm permitted...

Poll 3: How do you feel toward the Anti-Meta Pact, and what best describes your gender?

#Facebook #federation #defederation

(boosts welcome)

Anybody ever had a go at making #sugar at home using sugar #beets? #Medieval type processes, or modern versions of it?

Interested in seeing how well home-made sugar might work in #preserving: #jams, #jellies, etc.

Please #boost for coverage - it might be a bit of an odd topic, but I bet there;s someone out there who's tried it!

i think a lot about how apparently, someone visiting pink floyd's studio in the mid-70s noticed they had several minimoogs set up with gaffer tape all over them, because when they got a sound they liked, they'd put the tape over the knobs so the settings wouldn't get changed, and invoice the record label for another fresh minimoog. i think this is how you're actually supposed to manage python software installations, just buy a new computer every time you finally get the correct packages set up

The Barbie movie makes a point of acknowledging some of the criticisms people have made of Barbie over the years but never quite goes far enough because in the end, it does have to be basically pro-Barbie and pro-capitalist. One thing I'm surprised they didn't highlight more, though, is that Barbie never needs to train to do her jobs? There's a "Doctor Barbie" but no "Medical Student Barbie". Ken complains about this a bit but it doesn't really go anywhere.